Age: 42
female
Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress. Known for her roles in both blockbusters and independent dramas, her accolades include nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Thompson began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College, acting in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet. She made her film debut in the horror film When a Stranger Calls (2006), followed by leading roles in the independent drama Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010). Thompson received favourable notices for roles in the comedy-drama Dear White People (2014) and as civil rights activist Diane Nash in Ava DuVernay's historical drama Selma (2014). She gained mainstream attention for her roles in franchise films, playing Bianca Taylor in the sports dramas Creed (2015), Creed II (2018) and Creed III (2023), and as Valkyrie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the movies Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as her leading role in Men in Black: International (2019). She starred in the independent films Sorry to Bother You (2018), Little Woods (2018), and Annihilation (2018). For her role as a black woman living during the Harlem Renaissance in Passing (2021), she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She portrayed the title role in Hedda (2025), which she also executive produced. On stage, she acted in the off-Broadway production of the Lydia R. Diamond play Smart People (2016). On television, she took recurring roles in shows such as the teen mystery series Veronica Mars (2005–2006), the historical drama series Copper (2012–2013), and the science fiction series Westworld (2016–2022). She starred in the romantic drama film Sylvie's Love (2020) on Amazon Prime Video. Also, she served as an executive producer, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tessa Thompson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The officers at New York’s 77th precinct put their lives on the line day after day by covering one of the most dangerous areas in the city. One night, a group of the department’s employees consisting of rookie detective Quinton Clark, recently transferred csi Lonnie Rivera, hotheaded beat cop Cole Gardner, upbeat Lieutenant Oliver Simmons, hardened officer Olivia Davis, timid medical inspector Edward Hedges, by the book’s sergeant Blake Cox, bigoted Captain Ford, and his secretary Darcy Simmons are forced to stay for an overnight shift due to exceeded threats in the area. The tension is already high do to being forced to stay late but everything comes to a boiling point when Captain Ford is found by Darcy to be dead in his office. Sergeant Cox springs into action and puts the entire department into lockdown. Nobody leaves until the killer is found. Clark and Rivera immediately jump on the case. After a long night of interrogation in which seemingly everyone present had motive, they deduce that the killer is Darcy. But this is no job for one person. The methods in which the murder was executed required it to be a two man job, furthermore, that other person had to be an expert in the field. The group of officers rush into the medical examiner’s office only to find him staring over Darcy’s body with a malicious smirk across his face.
